I approach each morning with a certain tension. I pick up my phone (a terrible way to start the day, you’d think I’d have figured that out by now, I definitely do not recommend it.). I skim twitter, the New York Times, and whatever else has accumulated overnight. It isn’t that there wasn't oppression or ordeals before - but I (perhaps delusionally) thought I knew the shape of them. Now there is a certain wild card feel that I can’t quite shake… We’re back with another immigration executive order.

This study reports on the analysis of research publications in Elsevier’s Scopus database. It finds that “women researchers publish fewer papers on average than men and are less likely to collaborate internationally and to undertake research that cuts across the corporate and academic sectors. At the same time, a report on the findings notes there is little difference between papers published by men and women in impact as measured by citations and downloads.”

3. Why Did the House Science Committee Overlook NASA's Former Chief Scientist?

From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

“That’s a good question,” responded one person at the committee’s offices.

Despite a lengthy testimony and detailed answers to numerous questions about NASA’s programs, including those of interest to the public, Dr. Ellen Stofan, the only witness who had actually worked at NASA, “didn’t appear at all in the committee’s Twitter feed”.

“… Stofan’s omission prompted an outcry. “Don’t ask questions about encouraging young people to get into STEM and then make it look like it's only for old white guys,” one woman wrote...”

“Corporate leaders understand the impact of shoppers, especially women, pulling back their support,” Mallory says, citing the Grab Your Wallet movement, an anti-Trump boycott. “The sacrifice of a day will send a resounding message to our administration, corporations that support the administration, and any other influencers. We are prepared to make serious sacrifices to ensure our democracy is upheld.”

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist and visiting professor at the University of Oxford, advocates the need for a “culture change” to make science careers more inviting to women.

"When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife," she said. "It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her."